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A court docket within the United Arab Emirates has sentenced an Israeli lady to loss of life, after she was discovered responsible of possessing 500 grams of cocaine. The lady – named by Israeli media as 43-year-old Fidaa Kiwan – is interesting the sentence.
In a press release, the Israeli International Ministry mentioned: “The case is understood and we’re dealing with it via the consular service and our representatives within the Emirates.” It declined to remark additional.
Israeli media reported that Kiwan, who owns a pictures studio in Haifa in northern Israel, got here to Dubai for work a couple of yr in the past. She was arrested every week later after police discovered the cocaine within the condominium she was staying in. Kiwan reportedly claimed the medicine weren’t hers.
CNN has reached out to the UAE’s Ministry of International Affairs for remark.
Dying sentences are not often carried out within the UAE. Ziv Agmon, an Israeli lawyer specializing in Emirati regulation, who isn’t concerned on this case, instructed CNN he anticipated the UAE’s courts to commute the sentence. He added that there isn’t any formal repatriation settlement between the UAE and Israel.
The institution of diplomatic relations between Israel and the UAE, as a part of the Abraham Accords signed in 2020, has led to a surge in Israeli guests to the UAE. Not all of them have been vacationers and businesspeople. “Our Dubai workplace observed an increase in prison instances that Israeli residents are a part of,” mentioned Agmon. “Israelis have to grasp that the authorized authorities in Dubai deal with drug instances significantly.”